Norman rockwell brief biography of mahatma
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The First and Only Norman Rockwell Pandemic Post:
Friends,
It’s a time for facing down ourselves and our country with absolute and sometimes brutal truth. Because there IS a ground truth, an essential bedrock of truth underneath the vacillations of perception.
How many times have I heard lately: “Look at the world today — what on earth would Norman Rockwell paint now, the world is too much of a mess for his affirmative image of humanity?!”
Nonsense. My grandfather — Pop — was born in 1894 at the end of the Victorian era. He lived through the assassinations of Presidents McKinley and John F. Kennedy, Mahatma Gandhi, Robert Kennedy, among others; World War I & II, the Korean and Vietnam Wars. He experienced America as it progressed through the Second Industrial Revolution — gaslight replaced by electricity, the invention of the automobile, the advent of photography and television, and so on.
The one thing that was consistent throughout all this turmoil, upheaval and advancement was Norman Rockwell’s unceasing belief in the essential goodness in people and his message of tolerance and good will toward all. He never wavered from his vision — even when he was sorely tested by his own gnawing self-doubts about his work and the acute family troubles. But his ide
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Norman Rockwell, English Artist
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The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts @2021 Susmita Sengupta
A drive through the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts brings one to Stockbridge, a quintessentially New England town, with magnificent scenery. On a hot, summer day last year my husband and I drove through these parts with one goal in mind – to visit the museum dedicated to the most prominent resident of Stockbridge, the cherished American artist and illustrator Norman Rockwell.
About Norman Rockwell
Norman Percaval Rockwell was born in 1894 in New York City and knew by age 14 that he wanted to be an artist. He took classes at New York art schools and upon graduating found immediate employment as the art director for Boy’s Life magazine, the publication of the Boy Scouts of America. He was already trained in the illustration skills that would make him the forerunner of American everyday life art.
When he was 21, his family moved to New Rochelle, New York and there Rockwell began to work with famous illustrators and cartoonists. At age 22, in the year 1916, Norman Rockwell illustrated the first cover of The Saturday Evening Post. He would then go on to illustrate the covers of Post magazines for the next 47 years which in turn would make him a household name across America.